Internet consulté le 25-02-2005, http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Biographies/dryden.html
Information trouvée : Born July 2, 1898, in Pocomoke City, Maryland. Dr. Hugh Latimer Dryden, was Director
of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) from 1947 until the creation
of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and was named Deputy
Administrator of the new aerospace agency when it was created in response to the Sputnik
crisis. Before that time he was Associate Director of the National Bureau of Standards,
where he had served since 1918 in scientific research. He held a Methodist local
preacher's license since his college days, when he had charge of the Idlewylde Church
of Baltimore. He served as the NASA Deputy Administrator until his death on December
2, 1965.